Boesman and Lena | Act II Summary
An hour later, Boesman's wine is filling his head, and for entertainment he forces Lena to recall the morning's events in Korsten. In a rude, mocking voice and crude pantomime he imitates her distress when the white men came with their bulldozers to knock down their shanty town. To Lena, it was a travesty, another indignity heaped upon them by their white oppressors. Boesman, however, claims that watching his shabby hut fall actually made him happy and set him free. ‘‘Freedom! That's what the white man gave us,’’ Boesman cries. ‘‘When we picked up our things and started...
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